Dick W. Cohen

National Securities Corp., a subsidiary of National Holdings Corp., is an international, full-service, independent brokerage firm with a diverse base of retail and institutional clients. National Securities was founded in 1947 in Seattle, Washington with the goal of providing a full suite of financial products and services to its registered representatives and clients. The firm and their subsidiaries are headquartered in New York City and Seattle and have a multitude of domestic and international offices that provide a broad range of securities brokerage, financial planning, and investment services, as well as corporate finance and investment banking services to corporations and businesses. National Securities' representatives are primarily independent contractors who operate their business with freedom and flexibility in advising their clients. The firm is a member FINRA/SIPC.

Laidlaw, Adams & Peck, Inc. is an American company that provides women's apparel manufacturing services.

A member of the NASD and the SIPC, Baird, Patrick & Co., Inc. is a full-service investment firm headquartered Jersey City, New Jersey. The firm was founded in 1950 as an investment banking company. They service the needs of retail and institutional salesmen, traders and investment bankers. Over the years they have established numerous profit center partnerships with their employees. These profit centers, which are founded on solid business plans, are structured to maximize the income of the principals (partners) managing them, while at the same time minimizing overall business risk. Profit centers include, convertible arbitrage, brokers' broker in non-convertible preferred stock, institutional research and sales, municipal bond underwriting and sales, money management, investment banking, business consulting and over-the-counter trading. Baird, Patrick has over-the-counter market making capabilities and their traders make markets in hundreds of stocks. They clear trades through Pershing LLC. In an effort to avoid conflicts of interest, Baird, Patrick elects not to employ proprietary research analysts; instead they provide outside research from a variety of well regarded sources such as Argus, CS First Boston and Standard & Poors.

RAS Securities Corp provides security brokerage services. The private company is based in Sarasota, FL.

Founded in 1993, Fagenson & Co., Inc. is a broker-dealer located in New York City. The firm provides a full array of trading and execution services. They do not provide any internal research. Fagenson is a member of the NYSE and the NASD.